The 1st part of the 10th satire of Juvenal is even better than Johnson's imitation,
Here is the original Latin,apologies for any mis-spellings and solecisms.
IVVENALIS SATVRAE

SATVRA I

SEMPER ego auditor tantum? numquamne reponam
vexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi?
inpune ergo mihi recitaverit ille togatas,
hic elegos? inpune diem consumpserit ingens
5 Telephus aut summi plena iam margine libri
scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes?
nota magis nulli domus est sua quam mihi lucus
Martis et Aeoliis vicinum rupibus antrum
Vulcani. Quid agant venti, quas torqueat umbras
10 Aeacus, unde alius furtivae devehat aurum
pelliculae, quantas iaculetur Monychus ornos,
Frontonis platani convulsaque marmora clamant
semper et adsiduo ruptae lectore columnae:
expectes eadem a summo minimoque poeta.
15 et nos ergo manum ferulae subduximus, et nos
consilium dedimus Sullae, privatus ut altum
dormiret; stulta est clementia, cum tot ubique
vatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae.
cur tamen hoc potius libeat decurrere campo
20 per quem magnus equos Auruncae flexit alumnus,
si vacat ac placidi rationem admittitis, edam.
Cum tener uxorem ducat spado, Mevia Tuscum
figat aprum et nuda teneat venabula mamma,
patricios omnis opibus cum provocet unus
25 quo tondente gravis iuveni mihi barba sonabat,
cum pars Niliacae plebis, cum verna Canopi
Crispinus Tyrias umero revocante lacernas
ventilet aestivum digitis sudantibus aurum,
nec sufferre queat maioris pondera gemmae,
30 difficile est saturam non scribere. nam quis iniquae
tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus, ut teneat se,
causidici nova cum veniat lectica Mathonis
plena ipso, post hunc magni delator amici
et cito rapturus de nobilitate comesa
35 quod superest, quem Massa timet, quem munere palpat[1]
Carus et a trepido Thymele summissa Latino?
cum te summoveant qui testamenta merentur
noctibus,[2] in caelum quos evehit optima summi
nunc via processus, vetulae vesica beatae?
40 unciolam Proculeius habet, sed Gillo deuncem,
partes quisque suas ad mensuram inguinis heres.
accipiat sane mercedem sanguinis, et sic
palleat ut nudis pressit qui calcibus anguem
aut Lugudunensem rhetor dicturus ad aram.
45 Quid referam quanta siccum iecur ardeat ira,
cum populum gregibus comitum premit hic spoliator
pupilli prostantis et hic damnatus inani
iudicio? quid enim salvis infamia nummis?
exul ab octava Marius bibit et fruitur dis
50 iratis, at tu victrix provincia ploras.
Haec ego non credam Venusina digna lucerna?
haec ego non agitem? sed quid magis Heracleas
aut Diomedeas aut mugitum labyrinthi
et mare percussum puero fabrumque volantem,
55 cum leno accipiat moechi bona, si capiendi
ius nullum uxori, doctus spectare lacunar,
doctus et ad calicem vigilanti stertere naso?
cum fas esse putet curam sperare cohortis
qui bona donavit praesepibus et caret omni
60 maiorum censu, dum pervolat axe citato
Flaminiam puer Automedon? nam lora tenebat
ipse, lacernatae cum se iactaret amicae.
Nonne libet medio ceras inplere capaces
quadrivio, cum iam sexta cervice feratur
65 hinc atque inde patens ac nuda paene cathedra
et multum referens de Maecenate supino
signator falsi,[3] qui se lautum atque beatum
exiguis tabulis et gemma fecerit uda?
Occurrit matrona potens, quae molle Calenum
70 porrectura viro miscet sitiente rubetam
instituitque rudes melior Lucusta propinquas
per famam et populum nigros efferre maritos.
aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum,
si vis esse aliquid; probitas laudatur et alget.
75 criminibus debent hortos praetoria mensas,
argentum vetus et stantem extra pocula caprum.
quem patitur dormire nurus corruptor avarae,
quem sponsae turpes et praetextatus adulter?
si natura negat, facit indignatio versum
80 qualemcumque potest, quales ego vel Cluvienus.
Ex quo Deucalion nimbis tollentibus aequor
navigio montem ascendit sortesque poposcit,
paulatimque anima caluerunt mollia saxa
et maribus nudas ostendit Pyrrha puellas,
85 quidquid agunt homines, votum timor ira voluptas
gaudia discursus, nostri farrago libelli est.
et quando uberior vitiorum copia? quando
maior avaritiae patuit sinus? alea quando
hos animos? neque enim loculis comitantibus itur
90 ad casum tabulae, posita sed luditur arca.
proelia quanta illic dispensatore videbis
armigero! simplexne furor sestertia centum
perdere et horrenti tunicam non reddere servo?
quis totidem erexit villas, quis fercula septem
95 secreto cenavit avus? nune sportula primo
limine parva sedet turbae rapienda togatae;
ille tamen faciem prius inspicit et trepidat ne
suppositus venias ac falso nomine poscas
agnitus accipies. iubet a praecone vocari
100 ipsos Troiugenas, nam vexant limen et ipsi
nobiscum. "da praetori, da deinde tribuno."
sed libertinus prior est. "prior" inquit "ego adsum.
cur timeam dubitemve locum defendere? quamvis
natus ad Euphraten, molles quod in aure fenestrae
105 arguerint, licet ipse negem, sed quinque tabernae
quadringenta parant. quid confert purpura maior
optandum, si Laurenti custodit in agro
conductas Corvinus oves, ego possideo plus
Pallante et Licinis?" expectent ergo tribuni,
110 vincant divitiae, sacro ne cedat honori
nuper in hanc urbem pedibus qui venerat albis,
quandoquidem inter nos sanctissima divitiarum
maiestas, etsi funesta pecunia templo
nondum habitas,[4] nullas nummorum ereximus aras,
115 ut colitur Pax atque[5] Fides Victoria Virtus
quaeque salutato crepitat Concordia nido.
Sed cum summus honor finito conputet anno,
sportula quid referat, quantum rationibus addat,
quid facient comites quibus hinc toga, calceus hinc est
120 et panis fumusque domi? densissima centum
quadrantes lectica petit, sequiturque maritum
languida vel praegnas et circumducitur uxor.
hic petit absenti nota iam callidus arte
ostendens vacuam et clausam pro coniuge sellam
125 "Galla mea est" inquit, "citius dimitte. moraris?
profer, Galla, caput. noli vexare, quiescit."[6]
Ipse dies pulchro distinguitur ordine rerum:
sportula, deinde forum iurisque peritus Apollo
atque triumphales, inter quas ausus habere.

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"I'm all for removing dangerous weapons from the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters" Frank Lloyd Wright

Oh yes, There was a fellow with a trouble free personal life beyond reproach,great prairie school designs but the Guggenheim museum?just needs a toilet flush handle to be complete.

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"Half this game is ninety percent mental." --Philadelphia Phillies
manager, Danny Ozark

I thought that was a Yogi ism

"It is impossible to plan for peace, while planning for war."

From a recent episode of "Car Talk"

"I've had a wonderful evening, but this was not it." Groucho Marx

"I've never killed a man, but I have enjoyed reading a few obituaries." Clarence Darrow

"He loved nature, despite what it did to him." Forrest Tucker

"He had no enemies, but many friends despised him." Noel Coward

"He had dreams of adequacy." Noel Coward

Fighting for Peace is like Screwing for Virginity

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein


09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

Yea, it does seem like their wasnt an outbreak of peace in Europe circa 1946. Some sayings sound good, but in fact are nonsensical.

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

Hunter S. Thompson

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GG NJ USA
1983 300SD (Sold at 198K)
1989 560SEL (205k) - slowly restoring
2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid (6k) - daily driver
1995 Colt Vista AWD (145k) - fun car! spare
1991 Buick Riviera 3.8l (85k) - fur die Kinder
RIP: 1965 LeMans/GTO Convertable -my first
RIP: 1968 GTO 400 HO w/ 400HP - ballsy!
(blew the motor racing a '69 GTX - bummer)

Life is a big **** sandwich.

The more bread you have, the less **** you eat.

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MB-less

"Both parties depricated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came" Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

Dying ain't much of a living boy. Josey Wales from the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales./Client Eastwood.

No one ever goes to that Resturant anyone, its to crowed.
Yogi Berra.

90% of people have hemmoredes, the other 10% are perfect *********s.
Al Bundy

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joe moon/95Benzman

That's my favorite quote or

Clint Eastwood (Josey): When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.
Chief Dan George (Lone Watie): I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither!

Hey Med
Really great lines in the movie.
We goina bury them Pilgrims Josey?
Leave em boy, buzzer got eat same as worms.

Chief Dan George. I didn't surender, they made my horse surrender.

She's thinks I'm a great warrior chief.
Wales--- I wonder where she got that idea.

Grannny Hawkins. Pay me when you see me Josey Wales.
wales........ I reckon so.

The govener to Flether. They were decently feed and they were decently killed.


I don't believe any 4 pistolarios could take josey wales.

well maybe it was 6 or 8

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joe moon/95Benzman

Captain Terrell: Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.

Chief to Wales
how you know witch one to shoot first?
wales
the one in the middle had scarry eyes.
the one on the right, well he was in no hurry.
Chief. What about the one on the left?
wales. Didn't pay him any mine, you was theer.


flether to Govener. Don't pee down my leg and tell me its raining.

Wales to carpetbagger. Good for STAINS

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joe moon/95Benzman